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AAR15 v. Minister for Immigration and Border Protection

Case No. P50/2016

Case information

Lower Court Judgment

19/02/2016 Federal Court of Australia (North J)

[2016] FCA 150

Catchwords

Administrative law – Jurisdictional error – Provision of reasons – Where Refugee Review Tribunal preferred one piece of evidence over another piece of contrary evidence closer in time to the decision being made – Where no reasons were provided for preference of one piece of evidence contrary to another – Where appellant court speculated as to why Tribunal made preference of one piece of evidence contrary to another.

Documents

02/09/2016 Hearing (SLA, Canberra v/link Perth)

16/09/2016 Notice of appeal

05/10/2016 Chronology (Appellant)

14/10/2016 Written submissions (Appellant)

11/11/2016 Hearing (Full Court, Canberra)